Section 9-8-3 - Purpose

The purpose of the Health Care Authority Act is to establish a single, unified department to administer laws and exercise functions relating to health facility licensure and health care purchasing and regulation.History: 1978 Comp., § 9-8-3, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 252, § 3; 1979, ch. 203, § 7; 1979, ch. 204, § 1; 1979, ch. 280, § 1; 1981, ch. 88, § 1; 2023, ch. 205, § 3; 2024, ch. 39, § 3.ANNOTATIONSThe 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, changed references to the health care authority department to the health care authority; and after 'Health Care Authority' deleted 'Department' and after 'functions relating to' added 'health facility licensure and'. Temporary provisions. — Laws 2024, ch. 39, § 131 provided:A. On July 1, 2024: (1) functions, employees, money, appropriations, records, equipment and other property of the department of health pertaining to the developmental disabilities supports division, health improvement division and health facility licensing and certification bureau are transferred from the department of health to the health care authority; (2) all contractual obligations pertaining to the developmental disabilities supports division, health improvement

n bureau are transferred from the department of health to the health care authority; (2) all contractual obligations pertaining to the developmental disabilities supports division, health improvement division and health facility licensing and certification bureau shall be deemed to be contractual obligations of the health care authority; and (3) statutory references to the developmental disabilities supports division, health improvement division and health facility licensing and certification bureau or other functions transferred from the department of health to the health care authority shall be deemed to be references to the health care authority. B. On July 1, 2024, functions, employees, money, appropriations, records, equipment and other property of the office of the superintendent of insurance pertaining to the administration of the health care affordability fund are transferred to the health care authority. Contractual obligations of the office of the superintendent of insurance pertaining to the health care affordability fund shall be deemed to be contractual obligations of the health care authority.

. Contractual obligations of the office of the superintendent of insurance pertaining to the health care affordability fund shall be deemed to be contractual obligations of the health care authority. The 2023 amendment, effective June 16, 2023, changed the name of the humans services department to the health care authority department, and revised the duties of the department; after 'The purpose of the', deleted 'Human Services' and added 'Health Care Authority', and after 'relating to', deleted 'human services and formerly administered and exercised by the administrative services unit, the state welfare and social services agencies of the health and social services department and the committee on children and youth' and added 'health care purchasing and regulation'.